I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.
Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.
To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world.
I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction.
Run your purpose on the toes of your feet before people can type your success stories with the fingers of their hands.
My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.
Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.
All I'm saying is that there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because maybe they're even more important.
I could not - and I still cannot - see a sustainable career as a filmmaker in which I focus fully on our gay stories.
The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.
Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.
I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'
We question ourselves through others by way of stories, advice, and gestures; and we receive our answers form listening to others reactions
Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play with our writing.
One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.
I remember when John Lasseter called me back in the late 1990s to personally invite me to come be the voice of Barbie in 'Toy Story 2.'
I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it.
As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.
The story of two dreams is a coincidence, a line drawn by chance, like the shapes of lions or horses that are sometimes formed by clouds.
I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.
